Another plea for help.... tv drama late 1980's/1990's ?

[surreygirl]

I'm new to this site & hope you can help my ailing memory... the series I'm trying to name was probably shown in the late 1980's possibly 1990's & was set in appx 1920's Surrey along the banks of the Thames in Shepperton/ Walton-on-Thames. As I recall, plots of land were given (?) out & the plot-line followed the lives of the various families moving in & building houses etc... The only other thing I can recall is that some of the families went to work in the potato fields.... this has been bugging me for years, can anyone enlighten me, or maybe I'm just going mad, as my family might well confirm!!

[ecofugal]

Re: Another plea for help.... tv drama late 1980's/1990's ?

hi surreygirl
a series with this premise was shown on aussie TV about 6 years ago.
i remember families setting up tents and it focusing on one mother and her family.
vaguely remember the landowner being a nasty piece of work.
it was also constantly raining

still trying to remember the title.

[ecofugal]

Re: Another plea for help.... tv drama late 1980's/1990's ?

was it Plotlands (1997)

http://www.locatetv.com/tv/plotlands/7749

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/can-you-name-film/17958-do-you-know-title-british-period-drama-mini-series.html

A frustrated Cockney housewife, weary of city life, leaps at the opportunity to escape her violent husband by buying a cheap plot of land in the countryside. However, far from securing rural bliss for her two young daughters, she discovers to her horror that the water is contaminated, the nearest shop is four miles away and the only job going is a day's potato picking. Drama set in the 1920s, starring Saskia Reeves, David Ryall and Rebecca Callard.